disk drives won't recognize CD's

[subcook69420]

I am trying to burn some data CD's for work. Some of it is simple software, no more than 25KB, others are text files. For some reason when I put a CD in the drive, the drive won't recognize its there. I am running an older machine ( HP Pavilion N422a ). I might add that I was having this problem while this was still an XP box. I have tried multiple software, ( windows media player, Nero, Etc) and none seem to work.


thanks in advance



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[ryo]

hello subcook and welcome to seven forums.

when you put your CD blank into the drive. that's cd detect??

 

[DocBrown]

I get this when I insert a Blank CD

 

[subcook69420]

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Yeah,

I'll put the CD in the drive and close it,

I'll go to burn my data CD,

the drive open itself, than a window pops up saying, " please insert CD into drive"

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[ryo]

i guest that your drive hardware problem, do you already try to the other drive external?